Running the city’s most famous annual marathon may take months of training and a steady pace, but registering for it can be an all-out sprint. So be ready—registration for the Marine Corps Marathon opens today at 3 p.m.
A bill that would make it easier for residents to register handguns moved through a D.C. Council committee today, and if it passes the full council hopeful gun owners will no longer have to complete a five-hour training class, submit to a vision test or give up their gun for a ballistics test. The law would also allow the District’s mayor to act as a federally licensed firearms dealer if the sole dealer in the District goes out of business, as happened briefly last year.
The nation’s voter rolls are a total mess. That’s why you should check to see if your D.C. voter registration is right and valid.
Oct 18, 2011
Fines Replace Arrests for Lapsed Registrations
The D.C. Council stepped up this morning and did away with the controversial D.C. police practice of arresting drivers whose registration has lapsed.
The District has gotten plenty of grief in the last week over news that police officers have been throwing handcuffs on drivers that forgot to renew their registrations. Tomorrow that should change.
Oct 13, 2011
D.C. Promises to Address Lapsed Registration Arrests
After a rash of incidents in which drivers were arrested by D.C. police for having lapsed registrations, pretty much everyone seems to think that a solution is necessary. The problem is that no one seems to be clear on where that solution will be coming from.
Oct 07, 2011
Is a Lapsed Registration an Arrestable Offense?
Can the D.C. police actually throw you in the clink for having an expired registration?
Jul 20, 2011
Sykes To Move Gun Business Inside MPD Headquarters
During a press conference this morning, Mayor Vince Gray revealed that the District’s gun drought will soon be broken: Charles Sykes, the only person registered to sell and transfer guns inside the District, will soon open up shop inside the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police Department.
Jul 07, 2011
Wouldn’t Target Be a Better Place for Gun Sales?
Ever since the District’s sole licensed gun dealer went out of business earlier this year, residents have been unable to purchase handguns. Two different proposals offered today seek to remedy that.